Friday, September 26, 2014

The last Mitford girl and more

The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire [Deborah Mitford], last of the Mitford sisters, has died. She was 94. The duchess, known to friends as Debo, was the youngest of the six aristocratic Mitford girls who scandalised and delighted high society. She married Lord Andrew Cavendish and they became the 11th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire in 1950, residing at the magnificent Chatsworth House in Derbyshire until her husband’s death in 2004.